French President Emmanuel Macron -- in an interview with Al Jazeera -- has said that he can understand why Muslims were shocked by the controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, but also said he could never accept the issue justified violence, reports BBC.

Rescue workers extricated a 70-year-old man from a collapsed building in western Turkey on Sunday, some 34 hours after a strong earthquake in the Aegean Sea struck Turkey and Greece, killing at least 53 people and injuring more than 900.

A mother and three of her children were pulled to safety on Saturday after being trapped for almost 18 hours under a building in the western Turkish city of Izmir that was flattened in a powerful earthquake.

A super typhoon barrelled into the southern part of the Philippines' main island of Luzon on Sunday, bringing "catastrophic" violent winds and intense rains with two landfalls so far, the weather bureau said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered England back into a national lockdown after the United Kingdom passed the milestone of one million Covid-19 cases and a second wave of infections threatened to overwhelm the health service.

An Orthodox priest has been shot and injured at a church in the French city of Lyon by an assailant who then fled, a police source says.

Nearly a million people in the Philippines were evacuated from their homes yesterday as the most powerful typhoon of the year so far barrelled

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was “not without limits” and should not “arbitrarily and needlessly hurt” certain communities.

Vincent Siewit just dropped off his vote at a polling place in Houston -- one of nine million people in Texas who have already voted, racing past the state’s presidential election turnout from 2016.

The US presidential election is proving a boon for bookmakers, with estimates that more than $1 billion has already been bet on the winner around the world even before polling day.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to order England back into a national lockdown as the United Kingdom passed the grim milestone of one million Covid-19 cases and scientists warned the virus was spreading faster than their worst predictions.

India has complained to Saudi Arabia over a banknote that shows Kashmir as a separate country, in the latest protest over maps of the disputed region that have also targeted foreign media outlets and a social media giant.

A Brussels district has suspended a teacher who showed a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) while discussing the murder of a French teacher who had used the same image, its spokesman said Friday.

Former James Bond actor Sean Connery has passed away. He was 90.

A third person has been taken into custody in France in connection with a knife attack which left three dead in Nice, a police source says, as the government ramps up security efforts against possible militant attacks.

Shops and businesses were shut in several parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday as separatists challenging Indian rule called for a general strike to denounce new laws that allow any Indians to buy land in the disputed region.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended free speech on Friday, but added that it was "not without limits" and should not "arbitrarily and needlessly hurt" certain communities.

A Saudi man in a speeding car crashed into the outer gates of Makkah's Grand Mosque late Friday night, the country's state-run news agency reported.

Rescue teams on Saturday plowed through concrete blocks and debris of eight collapsed buildings in search of survivors of a powerful earthquake that struck Turkey’s Aegean coast and north of the Greek island of Samos, killing at least 26 people. More than 800 others were injured.

Fourteen people have been killed in Turkey and Greece after a strong earthquake struck the Aegean Sea on Friday, bringing buildings crashing down and setting off tidal waves which slammed into coastal areas and islands.